What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present
Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!
Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.
Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.
The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.
You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
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